A new 30-year anniversary edition with a new introduction by the
author, due January, 1999 from Simon & Schuster.
Carlos
Castaneda, under the tutelage of don Juan, takes us through that moment of
twilight, through that crack in the universe between daylight and dark
into a world not merely other than our own, but of an entirely different
order of reality. Anthropology has taught us that the world is differently
defined in different places. Don Juan has shown us glimpses of the world
of a Yaqui sorcerer and Castaneda presents it in such a way that enables
us to apprehend it with a reality that is utterly different from our own.
This is the special virtue of this work. Castaneda asserts that this world
has its own inner logic. He explains it from inside, as it were - from
within his own rich and intensely personal experiences while under don
Juan’s tutelage - rather than to examine it in terms of our logic. Through
this experience, Castaneda leads us to understand that our own world is a
cultural construct and from the perception of other worlds, we see our own
for what it is.
Abbreviated from Walter Goldschmidt Foreword